Quotes About Wisdom

In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

The man who knows his limitations, has none.

A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.

You are getting too old for this. A man is as old as he feels, woman! And how old do you feel? About ninety.

A man must know his limitations.

When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.

Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.

Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man

... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.